Lisa E. Pearson

Blanche Ames Ames (1878–1969) and Oakes Ames (1874–1950)

History & Biography

“Elizabeth Fideler has produced an excellent and needed joint-biography of Blanche Ames Ames, artist, suffragist, and reproductive rights advocate, and her husband Oakes Ames, Harvard botanist and authority on orchids. It is a welcome and very readable book on their supportive partnership that spanned half a century. The author has skillfully woven together research and recollections to bring Blanche and Oakes to life. I now know them much better than before.”